Foundation Blog
News, commentary, and voices in the efforts to eliminate HIV and AIDS in children worldwide.
Posted by
Charles Lyons
Washington, D.C.
February 17, 2011
Rajiv Shah at NIH. (Photo: USAID)
In the face of uncertain funding for critical HIV/AIDS programs, the Administrator of the U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID), Rajiv Shah, presented a road map for the future of global health and international development programs.
Shah delivered the David E. Barmes Global Health Lecture earlier this week at the National Institutes of Health (NIH) to a room full of scientists, researchers, and innovators. He highlighted the important role science plays in global health development, and outlined an ambitious agenda for the next five years to expand global health breakthroughs and improve health outcomes worldwide.
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Posted by
Charles Lyons
Washington, D.C.
January 26, 2011
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(Photo: EGPAF)
I’ve just returned from a week in Harare, Zimbabwe, a country where it is possible that the worldwide momentum toward creating a generation free of HIV will take center stage. Last week, the Foundation officially launched its partnership with the Children’s Investment Fund Foundation (CIFF), which awarded us the first year of a five-year, $45 million grant to accelerate scale-up of more effective antiretroviral regimens to reduce HIV transmission from mother to child in Zimbabwe, and to ensure that HIV-positive mothers can access treatment for their own health.
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Posted by
Charles Lyons
Washington, D.C.
October 22, 2010
I’m writing this message after a recent trip to Lesotho – a small country in the middle of South Africa, with the third-highest HIV prevalence rate in the world. Lesotho is called the African “Kingdom in the Sky” for a reason – its mountainous terrain poses constant challenges to the way we deliver critical and lifesaving services. Innovation is, and will continue to be, the key to our success there.
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